tandy put their sound chip on the 1A interrupt?

[foone@digipres.club]

I did a little looking into the contents of MIDISND.DAT

It's got 12 small tracks, and each of them is a valid MIDI file if you remove the first byte.

[foone@digipres.club]

@tomasino I've definitely seen that image, but I don't think it's in this version: There's only three "you're close" animations: A gun, a knife, and an axe.

[foone@digipres.club]

heh. I was checking different near-death animations by overriding the randomness, so I had to tell my debugger to set AX to 0

guess which animation that is? The one with the AXe.

[foone@digipres.club]

why do they store the day of the week as a 16bit int?

future proofing in case the calendar gets updated and has more than 256 days in the week?

[foone@digipres.club]

I accidentally applied a patch backwards and put the detective to sleep, forever.
They're in Rome and they've just slept through about two months of nothing

[foone@digipres.club]

patching 0x148C9 in the EXE to 90 90 will stop the clock advancing, so you now have Infinite Time to catch the culprit

[foone@digipres.club]

I finally figured out how it calculates travel times.
It's the difference in X coordinate between the two cities, plus the difference between the Y coordinate, plus one.
that quantity divided by 40, then has 2 added. if the result is over 7, it's set to 7.

Weird! that's not how you measure distance, Carmen.

[foone@digipres.club]

TODO: plot all the distances between all 30 cities and compare how inɐccurate this mess is

[foone@digipres.club]

also, it's the 90s, I can afford a sqrt().
I should fix it up for my version.

or use a squared lookup table. you could do this REAL easy by making it a table search: there's only 6 possible results: 2,3,4,5,6,7. each entry in the lookup table contains the maximum squared distance that can generate that number of hours

[foone@digipres.club]

here's all 30 city locations:https://gist.github.com/foone/0992517879877e0e995259d08a0941a7

it's currently way too 6am to do more calculations, though. I'll do that tomorrow

[scmbradley@mathstodon.xyz]

@foone why is that 'a' upside down!? The first one in "inaccurate"...

[stompyrobot@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@foone if it's 6am you mean you'll do it "later today?"

[pjokse@social.restless.systems]

@foone
https://github.com/moralrecordings/ghidra-fidb-dos-win16 theese should probably do

[dryak@mstdn.science]

@riley @foone so many fond memories of learning cool coding tricks as a teen by throwing Sourcer at any weird executable I stumbled upon.
(learned to do PWM on the PC Speaker by disassembling a couple of speech software)
(Yes, I was a werid kid)

[riley@toot.cat]

@dryak Sounds like my kind of weird. @foone

[modulusshift@digipres.club]

@foone I did it lol https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTr5GBfUNkxzVN7RoAiMg081ihERAFs93oE_m_1dPj67IxG-pkMQ41zoVVDlK0DJQepfeRe3NcA-9z8/pubhtml
hope this answered any questions you had

[foone@digipres.club]

@pjokse oh awesome, thanks!

[foone@digipres.club]

@StompyRobot nah. I meant human days, which can only change when you sleep

[foone@digipres.club]

@Scmbradley I fat-fingered my compose key, and compose-a-a is ɐ

[foone@digipres.club]

@modulusshift Awesome, thanks!